Eco-hosting (green hosting)
14th February 2008
Today I learned that eco-hosting (or green hosting) exists not only as a words combination. On one of the “hostings rating” websites there was even a category titled “green hosting”.
In short: green hosting operates on the principles of minimal ecology harm. E.g., solar energy is used (mostly in the form of photovoltaic panels - PVs), and a bunch of other “green” technologies.
I expected green hosting to be more expensive than common shared hosting… so I took a look at aiso.net’s hosting plans. Well, at least it doesn’t look 1000%-oversold, as many shared hostings look. For 10$/mo, you get 500MiB web storage, 500MiB email space (who needs it anyway?), and 5GiB traffic/mo. Everything else seems as usual - PHP, MySQL, Perl etc (I was looking at Linux hosting). Not much, but if you can use those 5GiB of traffic in one day - that is, if there are no other stronger limitations such as low CPU - then it’s still good. And - this is the most “basic” plan, I took it only because it’s also the closest to what is widely known in the shared hosting market as “common price”. This isn’t the only green hosting provider out there, I just satisfied my interest and didn’t look for more.